In a 4-to-4 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that blocked the school. An evenly divided ...

A new Washington state law that requires members of the clergy to report child abuse or neglect, including when the ...

At a crucial period in the Catholic Church's history, Pope Francis made synodality the cornerstone of his pontificate, breathing new life into this age-old tradition that invites the Church to ...

Washington State's new law mandating priests to divulge abuse revealed in confessions is the latest salvo in a larger dispute ...

The Catholic Church is against a new law that was pushed through by Democrats requiring priests to break the confidentiality ...

Catholic clergy may ... out religion and is clearly both government overreach and a double standard,” Archbishop Etienne concluded. “The line between Church and state has been crossed and ...

I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other Christians will pray for his successful work leading the Church. May God bless him!" wrote Vance. In the months before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal ...

Sexual abuse is a cancer within the Catholic Church. Pope Leo must tackle it For all the good he did, the late pope failed to adequately address the scandal of clerical sex abuse ...

Chow's call came after the 69-year-old Augustinian priest, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost, became the first of 267 popes in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church to be elected from ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...

(Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has congratulated the Catholic Church for the election of Pope Leo XIV. The CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh ...

Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, choosing the name of Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican on Thursday. (AP photo) VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost ...